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...Japanese companies have excelled most of all in the popular dynamic RAM chips, which are used by the dozens in personal computers and by the hundreds in larger models. While this type of integrated circuit was developed in the U.S., Japanese companies have proved adept at efficiently turning them out in mass volumes. Part of the problem is a difference in high-tech corporate culture. Says Richard Skinner, president of Integrated Circuit Engineering, a Scottsdale, Ariz., semiconductor-research firm: "In the U.S., the real glamour jobs are in designing the chips. But in Japan the manufacturing guys are equal." Indeed...
...book filled with such inveterate egotists as the Carver clan ought not to be much fun. Yet A Summons to Memphis radiates tolerant good humor. For all of Phillip's flaws, he is a keen observer, witty monologist and an adept at anecdotes. He recalls, for example, the fate of another old Memphis widower who attempted to take a second wife: "When Mr. Joel's intention to remarry was made manifest he was actually hauled into court by his own children. (His sons were all lawyers, unhappily for him.) And there in court . . . Mr. Joel's sons had their father...
...senior looked quite confident on Harvard's running plays on Saturday and was particularly adept on the option. He also showed an accurate arm on short, quick-developing passes...
...former rock-'n'-roll groupie and longtime drug abuser, Smith was reportedly adept at living off the money and drugs of others. Belushi had plenty of both. In his biography of the actor, Bob Woodward wrote that Belushi, as part of his movie contract, received a $2,500-a-week stipend, which he understood to be his drug allowance. Smith is believed to have been the last person to see the comedian alive after a five-day binge that ended with her injecting him with a series of speedballs, powerful mixtures of cocaine and heroin...
Theroux, always adept at following literary form, sticks to the basic rules of science fiction. The first is never invent the future, just extrapolate the present. The second: the hardware and social order should always be more impressive than the quality of life. O-Zone's projection of industrial society as a spreading toxic stain is not farfetched. Neither is its assumption of a self-sealed managerial elite, the establishment of airport- like security in the streets or even the possibility of renewal...